Neda Tiraieyari

The Coastal Community Perception on the Socio-Economic Impacts of Agro-Tourism Activities in Coastal Villages in Malaysia

This paper is concerned with the socio-economic impacts of agro-tourism activities in coastal villages listed as Desa Wawasan Nelayan (DWN) in Malaysia. The paper discussed the impacts of the two major components of socio-economics dynamics, namely social and economic activities. This account highlights a number of discussions with specific reference to DWN in Malaysia. It identifies the similarities and differences with regard to socio-economic impact, and it is expected that these points will be of practical use for other agro-tourism areas around the globe, and help to increase interest in agro-tourism activities.

The role of physical and financial, social, human and natural capitals in explaining work performance of employees in Malaysian public sector

In this paper, we investigated the influence of four basic types of capital: physical and financial, social, human, and natural on work performance of the employees in public sector at federal ministry level in Malaysia. A structured research instrument was utilized to survey a sample of 1253 employees from 19 federal ministries in Malaysia. Pearson correlation was employed to analyze the relationships between the independent variables and dependent variable. Enter method regression was employed to determine to what extent these capital factors explain the variation of work performance among employees. Analysis shows that there are positive linear relationships between the four capitals and work performance. Only three of the four capitals considered in the regression model namely human, social, and physical and financial capitals were significant in explaining the variation of work performance. Natural capital did not show significant contribution. Human capital made the highest contribution in explaining variation of work performance, followed by the three nonhuman capitals: social, and physical and financial capitals. Natural capital made an insignificant contribution.